"Arles is certainly one of the most interesting……" — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
"Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance."
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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30 Quotes by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
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Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my…
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life…
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The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to…
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There is no magician like love.
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Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that…
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Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the…
— Edward Joseph Young
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of…
— John Ruskin
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Richard Kirwan
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of…
— Confucius
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